Palmira (name)
# Palmira (name)

Palmira is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name are as follows:

* Palmira Barbosa (born 1961), Angolan Olympic athlete
* Palmira Bastos (1875–1967), Portuguese stage actor
* Palmira Brummett, American historian
* Palmira Jaquetti i Isant (1895–1963), Spanish folklorist and poet
* Palmira Maciel (born 1961), Portuguese politician
* Palmira Marçal (born 1984), Brazilian basketball player
* Palmira Omiccioli, known as Eleonora Rossi Drago (1925–2007), Italian film actress
* Palmira N. Ríos (born 1956), Afro-Puerto Rican academic
* Palmira Silva (died 2014), Italian woman who was beheaded in London

## Fictional characters

* Palmira, one of the major characters in Voltaire's play Mahomet
